Research WITH us, not ON us: Community-driven knowledge mobilization
Dr. Melody Morton Ninomiya is a Japanese and Swiss-German Mennonite (heritage and upbringing) researcher, educator, and mediator with experience in Indigenous health and wellness, critical public health, mental health and addictions, community-based and decolonizing research methods and methodologies, and knowledge mobilization. She currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Community-Driven Knowledge Mobilization and Pathways to Wellness. Dr. Morton Ninomiya’s research projects and interests lie in the areas of Indigenous health and wellness, community and culturally defined indicators of wellness, knowledge mobilization principles and practices in community-based research, mental health and addiction, critical public health, and decolonizing research methodologies.
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